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Sorry for the absence I am just not the most attentive blogger. In my defence I have been behind in crafting because grad school is making it hard to do anything besides homework and going to work. I have a couple weeks off from school so hopefully I can accomplish some and this next semester I will only be taking 1 class so hopefully that means less homework.

Anyway one of my co-workers is having a baby and her shower at work is this week. Here theme is elephants for her little guy. So I decided to make her a couple of small tie blankets with elephants on them to go with her theme. The first one here is navy (which is also part of her color theme) I thought it was really cute. It is felt. I usually do the tie blankets two different fabrics one on each side but decided this time to keep it the same on each side. I am hoping maybe one day it will turn into his blankie :-).

The second one is white here with some grey and tan elephants on it. I love this one because it is SO soft!! I think it will be a great one to snuggle on and you know babies they put things in their mouth, especially when teething so I think this would be soft.

I am happy with how they turned out and think they should be a good size for him as a baby and even as a toddler. I had fun making them. I put on Wet Hot American Summer, the movie, since the show is about to come out and worked on them. Then I switched to Gossip Girl, I am only on season two. Anyway it has been nice having some moments to craft :-).

Yay! Halloween is finally here! I love getting to hand out candy. I am just hoping that the wind dies down so we can put our big blow up cat arch up for the kids to walk under. I love getting to decorate and hand out candy. I know I have been bad at blogging (obviously) but I do intend to get back into it. For this Halloween I went to a place called Art Attack, it is where you can paint different pottery pieces and then they glaze and fire it for you. It is a lot of fun. It is something my best friend and I love doing. They even have a ladies night the first Friday of every month and you go from 8-10 and you can bring a drink and paint. I have done a lot of these, and I always get over ambitious and make something complicated and it takes me forever to paint it because you have to do 3 coats of each color if you want it dark, which of course I always do. Anyway this year I decided to paint a pumpkin with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. I actually am really proud of how it turned out, I did not think the silhouette of Jack and Sally on the hill would look as good as it does and as for Oogie Boogie and Zero I think they turned out well, as did the Jack Skellington face I put in the bottom of the pumpkin. I am using a fake candle to put in it and light it up as a decoration for my house. I also have a picture of the pumpkin I painted last year it is a masquerade pumpkin :-). I hope you all enjoy! Happy Halloween everyone!

Sorry for the break from writing we went to visit family in Tulsa and then things were crazy when we got back. Getting back into the swing of work was hard so I would come home exhausted so I wasn’t in the thinking mood on what to write about and then I got sick and my dog got sick so we were both recovering from that! However, I did have a Halloween party when we got back and I made some creative treats for the party so I wanted to go ahead and post about them so that I get to show them off again :-).

First off Hubby of course has to be “that house” for Halloween so here is what the kids got to choose from! I would say they were pretty lucky. However, did anyone else notice that there weren’t as many kids this year as last year?!

The Candy Basket

For the party the first treat I decided to make was a rice krispy treat spider! I found it on Pinterest and decided that I just had to make it! I thought it came out real well! I used candy corn for the fangs and red jelly beans for the red eyes.

Rice Krispy Spider!

My moose brother (aka best friend) had a little Halloween party treat book and we found the cute carrot pumpkin. I just got some baby carrots and put them on a plate with two little glasses filled with ranch as the eyes and then used sliced cucumbers for the mouth and nose. Then I used celery and a green bean as the top of the pumpkin and a little celery thrown in the ranch as the eyes.

Veggie Pumpkin

Then of course I had to make my popcorn monster hands. So just had to pop a lot of popcorn and put candy corn in the fingers of the gloves like nails and filled the rest with popcorn to make monster hands. I used to make these for Halloween when I was younger.

Monster Hand!

I also found a cute idea of doing like “finger” sandwiches but I put a twist on it and made them peanut butter and jelly and used the red jelly on the ends of the “fingers” so it looks like they were cut off. Then used almonds on the tips like the fingernails, which attached with peanut butter so that it would kind of glue it on there.

“Finger” Sandwiches

Last but not least what would my party be without me making some cupcakes. I decided to make some chocolate mini cupcakes with vanilla icing that I food colored to be red and used some skull sprinkles on them with my signature rose icing. I also had to make my traditional caramel apple cupcakes. I used a cinnamon muffin mix and chopped up a green able to go in the batter and then I put caramel on top. Then I put some black icing on the top and drag a toothpick through it to make it a spiderweb.

Chocolate Cupcakes w/ Rose Icing

Skull Sprinkles 🙂

Cute stand!

Caramel Apple Spiderweb Cupcakes

I found a lot of fun decorations for the table at the dollar store and I think the layout turned out real well :).

Hope you all enjoyed! I had fun at the party and making everything for it! It took us forever to find costumes but I finally found us some we were Greek Goddess and a Warrior! Have a great evening!

Hey everyone! 6 days until Halloween! Is everyone excited? Anyone have their costumes figured out? While I was here visiting family my Papa had made some wooden pumpkin stakes for the yard and he had painted them orange so I decided to give them a face. He had two of them so I decided that I would make them the same so that they could have one in their yard and I would have a matching one for our yard at home. I am a little obsessed with pirates so I decided to give them a pirate face! I had a hard time for some reason getting the yellow for the eyes and teeth to work on the orange for some reason. It was basically see through so I had to do a few different coats but eventually I got it on there. However, I had no other problems with the paint so not sure why the yellow was being so difficult. I drew the eye patch and mouth on so I knew where to put the rest of the face on their. I decided to give them pumpkin 2 gold teeth just to add that pirate touch along with a nose ring.

The pumpkin canvas

Pirate 1

Pirate 2

I think they turned out good and my Nanny and Papa were happy to put it in their garden by their front steps.

Sorry that I haven’t posted in a couple of days I am out of town so I don’t get to the computer as often as I do at home. Plus I have been watching different Halloween movies :-). I decided to use my Cameo to make some Halloween party invites. I think it is fun to design invitations and cards for different holidays so I decided that since it is almost Halloween I would make some. I keep thinking of different ideas for cards and invites for Halloween that I may try out or I might save them for next year we will see when I get back in town. First I came up with the idea of the shape that I wanted them to be and then I did an inside outline of the shape and made it smaller so I could use a different patterned paper to put inside of it and I created the word Party out of the Pacifico font and then would use that to put it on the front of the invitation as well. The idea was that on the back is where someone would write in the party information. Here are all of the different patterns that I cut out.

After I got them all cut out I just tried out different patterns together and I think they came out pretty well. However, I think next time I will use a solid color of paper for the word party because some of the patterns I could not get to show up. So as you see below some of the pattern combinations turned out good while the others did not turn out as good because you can’t read the word party.

Hope you all enjoyed the Halloween invites! Only 9 more days till Halloween! Is everyone all decorated and prepared for Trick-or-Treaters?!

Happy humpday everyone! Does it seem to anyone else that it should be Thursday and that this week is going by very slowly?! On the one hand we should not be getting furloughed since the government finally decided to figure it out right at the last minute. Hopefully they can figure everything out by their new date so we don’t go through this nail biting again.

Anyway so recently my Mom had some of her college friends out for one of their retirements party. It was a great idea because they came out just in time for the balloon fiesta. So she knows how I love to bake cupcakes so she had me bake some cupcakes for his retirement party. His favorite flavor was yellow so I made a yellow cupcake with chocolate frosting and I used some blue pearls for decorations.

Signature rose icing

Yellow cake with chocolate icing

Blue sugar pearl decorations

I decided though that I wanted to add a little something about it being for his retirement, because who isn’t excited to be retiring! So I decided to cut out a hot air balloon, to go along with the fact they were here for the balloon fiesta, on my Cameo and on the back I wrote “Let our a breath of air you’re retired!”. I thought it was a pretty clever saying so I was happy with myself for thinking of it. Now I should know that I need to proof read so I got it all cut out and everything and showed Hubby and I had a typo. So I had to go back and fix it and then I got them fixed and reprinted. Or so I thought, but since the type was small on the screen I did not see that it did not delete my typo but typed next to it so for the third time I had to fix it but third time is the charm and they came out good this time. Then I glued the balloons to some toothpicks so that she could stick them in the cupcakes when it was time for the party.

The hot air balloon cutout

Back of the hot air balloon cutout

Finished product

Backside

I heard that they were a great success at the party so I was very happy! I am always glad when my cupcakes turn out the way I want them to. Well off to finish my episode of Sleepy Hollow and then off to bed! Have a great night everyone, thanks for tuning into my blog! Come back again!

It is that time of year again…Halloween time! I love that the weather is still warm but not too hot. I am excited to decorate for Halloween and to have our trick-or-treaters! We handed out full candy bars last time because Hubby wanted to be “that house” that kids remember and I must admit it was a lot of fun. I had a little wicker basked and we lined up all of the different choices for the kids to pick and I think they really enjoyed picking out what they got. It was interesting to see what they all picked and what out of the choices went the fastest. I ended up getting some Fun Dip packets and Hubby didn’t think anyone would go for those and actually a lot of people did, especially mom’s with babies. Anyway so I ordered me some new shoes and they came with these cardboard inserts that were shaped to go inside the shoe and I was going to recycle them and my mom said those would be cool to make something out of them. Then the idea popped into my head! They would be perfect for wicked witch boots! So that is indeed what I did! First I started with outlining where the buckle would go and painting it silver.

The outline

The buckle

After I got that done I had to draw where the boot would be painted on the cardboard foot and where the flap of the boot would come up on the foot from the buckle. Once that was drawn on I painted the bottom part of the book black and then the flap of the boot black.

The boot

The next step was making the striped socks. Now the witch usually wears green and black socks but since I wasn’t making this 3d you wouldn’t really be able to tell the difference from the black sock stripe and the boot. So Hubby suggested that I make the black a little lighter, so I mixed some silver and black paint together and that worked out nicely. I know it isn’t the exact color of the witches socks but I wanted to be able to see it. I think it turned out pretty good.

The flap and socks

witchy socks

I wasn’t sure about painting on the top because that is where the foot would be but I also don’t want it to look strange. However, Hubby suggested we find a way to give it legs so I am still working on that part. Next I wanted it to be a heel so I took two toilet paper rolls and painted them black and stuck them up in the heel of the cardboard foot and voila we have a heel boot.

Toilet paper roll heel

The finished product!

I give you the wicked witches shoes

I must say I am pretty happy with them and I think they are going to be a great decoration for around the house and the best part is I didn’t have to glue the heel in so when storing I can take it off and they will fit in a smaller box! :-). Hope you all enjoyed my Halloween craft! More to come!

In light of it being throwback thursday I have decided to write about my cupcakes I made last year for Christmas. I decided that I would make white cake cupcakes and dye half of them red and half of them green. Why? Well because it was for Christmas! I decided that I would use a white vanilla frosting on top because it was like snow on top of them! Now I love baking stuff so I have tons of different things to put on top of cupcakes, and christmas decorations is no exception. I decided to just do a little of it all! I had some christmas light candies, and different shaped red, green, and white sprinkles. I decided I would even mix and match some of the light candy with the sprinkles. I used my usual rose style icing and then came back and added the different toppings. I tried to make a pattern when it came to putting the light candies on top of it. I hope you all like pictures because I decided to show the different ways I iced them. Sorry in advance if they make you want to go eat a cupcake :-)!

The beginning

Then there was the final product…

I hope you all enjoyed seeing my Christmas inspired cupcakes. I am looking forward to making some more this year and trying out a different decorating idea! Until next time!

Happy Monday evening! Hope everyone had a good Monday, or as good of a Monday as one can have! I decided that I wanted to make a fun but pretty simple birthday card. I decided I would kind of do the words topsy turvy because to me it just made it say have a fun birthday! I again used the Pacifico font to make the words “Happy Birthday”. I then decided that I wanted to line the bottom of the card with some off kilter candles. I didn’t want all of them to be in a row but I wanted it to be like up, down, up down, etc. I thought it also added to the whimsicalness of the card. At first I was going to cut the candles out of the main card paper but I decided I didn’t want all the candles to be the same color and I didn’t want the inside of the card to look like a frankenstein of different pieces of paper glued in it to make the candles all show a different color. So I decided to just cut the candles out with the Cameo and glue the separately to the card. I traced the candles and then I cut the wicks off so that I could make all of those yellow. Then I decided on my three candle colors and cut them out. After I had everything cut out it was time to piece it all together. Personally I think it came out pretty good, I would like it if someone used it for my birthday card. I decided to leave the inside blank because sometimes it is just fun to personalize the saying of the card for the person you are giving it to!

Cut and ready to go

Final product

That was my nice short and sweet blog about my birthday card hope you enjoyed it! Have a great evening!

Happy Friday everyone! Just because the government is shutdown doesn’t mean my blog is :-). I feel like talking about cupcakes today! When one of my best friends got married I offered to make some bridal shower cupcakes for her. It was definitely the most cupcakes I have made at once! I made three different batches, that means 72 total cupcakes, 144 cupcake wrappers (because I used two on each), and 72 of my icing roses. The first cupcake I made was a red velvet with cream cheese icing. I used a plain white liner to cook them in and then set them down into a purple flower liner and sprinkled on some gold sprinkles to decorate them.

Red Velvet w/ Cream Cheese

The next cupcake I made was yellow with chocolate icing. These I put down in a pink flower liner and used white pearl candy to decorate them.

Yellow w/ Chocolate

The third cupcake I baked was chocolate with cinnamon roll icing. For these they were set down in a white flower and I used blue pearl candy to decorate them

Chocolate w/ Cinnamon Roll

I was so nervous to transport them because I didn’t want to turn to sharp and have them all go everywhere, I am pretty sure I would have cried! Her cousin had a 6 tiered stand and we used that to display the cupcakes. At first we weren’t sure they were all going to fit and then I was afraid someone would hit the table and they would fall over. But it worked out perfectly!

Needless to say the cupcakes were a hit and everyone loved them! I really do like the way I finally found to ice them after a bunch of trial and error with other ways. I do want to eventually branch out and try others like making grass and what not. I hope you enjoyed my post about cupcakes and if it made you want a cupcake, hey indulge it is Friday go get yourself a cupcake! 🙂